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Sandal Magna or Sandal is a suburb of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England with a population in 2001 of 5,432. An ancient settlement, it is the site of Sandal Castle and is mentioned in the Domesday Boo
Sandal Castle remains
St Helen's Church
Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York, also named Richard Plantagenet, was a leading English magnate and claimant to the throne during the Wars of the Roses. He was a member of the ruling House of Plantag
Sandal Magna
…1107 and began the building of Sandal Castle which became the baronial seat of the lords of the manor of Wakefield. During the Wars of the Roses, the Duke of York was killed on 30 December 1460 in the Battle of Wakefield fought between Sandal Castle and St Helen's Church. There are records of mining for coal and…
Richard of York in the frontispiece of the Talbot Shrewsbury Book, 1445
Victorian depiction of Henry VI (right) sitting while the Dukes of York (left) and Somerset (centre) have an argument
Edward IV, King of England
Elizabeth, Duchess of Suffolk